Judea Pearl
@yudapearl
Followers
76K
Following
23K
Media
388
Statuses
25K
Student of causal inference, human reasoning, and history of ideas, all viewed through the sharp lens of artificial intelligence.
Joined July 2015
I am working on a new book of selected writings. For list, see
22
21
159
Today we will say Kaddish in memory of our son, Daniel.If you happen to be in Encino, CA, join us at 5pm at Valley Beth Shalom. Else, please join us spiritually. After the Kaddish, please sing with us: Tsadik Katamar Yifrach (Like an Immortal Palm Tree).
383
2K
14K
October 10 marks the birthday of my late son, Danny, who would have been 61 today. I wish to thank all readers who wrote to me about what Danny meant to them. A diehard humanist who wanted to believe that man is not a predator to other men. The October 7 massacre, and the.
505
1K
11K
It was on Feb. 21, 2002, 20 yrs ago, that a team of FBI agents knocked on the door and asked us to sit down. "Bad?" we asked - "Yes". "Are you sure?" - "Yes". The only thing I remember next was lifting my hand up and down, up and down, marveling how human biology can continue.1/2.
305
820
9K
October 10 marks the birthday of my late son, Danny, who would have been 60 today. A diehard humanist who wanted to believe that man is not a predator to other men. We hoped that his brutal murder would mark a turning point in the history of man inhumanity to man. Saturday's.
326
1K
8K
I think South Africa regrets its Hague exercise; it gives Israel a platform to present its case to new audience which, until today, has been informed exclusively by Al-Jazeera, the BBC, and MSNBC. Watch Galit Rejwan exposing Hamas doings, totally ignored in the accusation.
נציגת ישראל בהאג, ד"ר גלית רג'ואן ממשרד המשפטים, הציגה לבית הדין תיעודים ושימוש חמאס בתשתיות אזרחיות במהלך הלחימה בתוך רצועת עזה.@RamEliBrandts
2K
2K
8K
Feb. 1 marks 20 years since our son, Danny, was murdered in Karachi, Pakistan. We will be lighting the traditional "soul candle" and say Kaddish in his memory. Readers noted that the link to my poem "The Lion Den" is obstructed by The New Yorker's paywall, so, I am sharing.
204
899
6K
Dear readers of this educational channel. I've lost my dear wife this afternoon, my northern-star and my college sweetheart. Need to take a few days off. Hope to be back.
858
107
6K
We must remember that the holocaust was preceded by a successful program of "critical race theory". In April, 1938, Nobel Prize winner J. Stark explained in the British weekly "Nature" why Jewish professors at German universities must be replaced by "under-represented" Germans.
155
1K
4K
Palestinians greatest mistake, which has caused them tragedy after tragedy, was and is to conceptualize Israel as a colonizer, rather than a home-comer. This conception dictates that, if you make its life miserable enough, the colonizer will quit, like Algiers. Palestinians (and.
@EnLiEretzAheret @markhumphrys @banjo_piano @yudapearl So you want Palestinians to stop fighting back from colonization 😵💫🤷.
1K
676
4K
500,000 European Jews, including my family, owe their lives to Lord Balfour, whose 1917 declaration gave them a license to escape antisemitic Europe and rebuild their homeland in Eretz-Israel. My grandfather was one of them (1924) and my mother was another (1935). The rest of.
In honor of Lord Balfour, a man of wisdom and character, whose portrait was defaced yesterday by the Barbarians of victim-land, I am reposting my piece on Balfour and the redefinition of "indigenous people" here
562
555
3K
to work, when everything else is dead. Up and down,. Up and down,. when everything is dead -- brain, heart, self, . -- all frozen dead. 2/2.
80
123
3K
U.N. Women Retracts Statement Condemning Hamas Attacks on Israel
404
856
3K
This is precisely what statisticians used to say. "If you can predict well the next data point, they you understand the reality or the process that generates that point". They said it and said it until Causal Inference proved them wrong. Understanding takes more than prediction.
Ilya on LLMs understanding the world: . "predicting the next token well, means that you understand the underlying reality that let to the creation of that token". Seem like the opposite view of Yann.
139
309
2K
I will be saying Kaddish today (the Jewish prayer of mourners) and lay a flower on Danny's tombstone. I will then join Benjamin Lapidus in singing the Kaddish in a melody that can shake the gates of heaven loose:
136
291
2K
Thanks for sharing. I'm going to put on a blue & white Kippa for my next class at UCLA. I heard some Palestinian students would complain of "feeling unsafe", so I'll ask them politely to leave.
My Jewish husband started wearing his Magen David necklace on the outside of his shirt. Proud. Prominent. He got some scowls. And he got some smiles. Small smiles with eyes full of empathy. I asked him why risk it? He replied:. “For those smiles.”
183
217
2K
Danny's official Yahrzeit is tomorrow, February 1st. Tonight we'll light the Soul Candle (Ner Neshama) and ask him to speak on our behalf, a world gone mad, in places where humanity, wisdom and courage once reigned. Yitgadal V'Yitkadash Shmey Rabba.
21 years ago, #DanielPearl, an American-#Israeli journalist, was kidnapped. 9 days later, he was brutally murdered by Islamic terrorists for being Jewish while pursuing a story in Pakistan. Daniel Pearl's last words were: "I am #Jewish."
99
357
2K
My beloved wife was laid to rest on Thursday, next to our son, Danny, overlooking San Fernando Valley. I am grateful for the flood of condolences and support that you sent my way, which I wish I could acknowledge it in person. Will be back soon with renewed explorations of "WHY".
Dear readers of this educational channel. I've lost my dear wife this afternoon, my northern-star and my college sweetheart. Need to take a few days off. Hope to be back.
147
70
2K
Our grandson, Adam, will be voting tomorrow in his first American election. Ruth and I feel as proud as he does.
18 years ago our colleague Danny Pearl of the @WSJ was brutally murdered, beheaded, by Al-Qaeda. Now Adam, 18, the son Danny would never meet, votes along with his mum Mariane, in his first ever presidential election.
27
156
2K
We miss you, Danny.
He would have been 57 today, October 10. Danny Pearl. A beautiful son to Ruth and @yudapearl. A great friend. As a hard-working immigrant girl, I didn’t know how to have fun, Dr. Pearl. That changed when Danny became my friend. We miss you, Danny. 🎂
35
172
2K
Please join me and my family in celebrating Danny's 59th birthday. Many communities celebrate it through musical concerts, interfaith gatherings and press-freedom panels, still others recite his last words: “My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish — I am Jewish. Back in .1/2.
Today would’ve been Danny Pearl’s (z’l) 59th birthday. Though his life was taken by Islamic terrorists, his words, life and memory, have forever been a blessing and inspiration. BDE.
66
345
2K
Your father is 100% wrong. Denying for 40 years any antisemitism on the left has contributed to the current hostilities on campus; it has fermented on his watch. The kinds of speech Jewish students are currently calling "antisemitic" include the denial of Israel's right to exist,.
My father and former Harvard Hillel director, Bernie Steinberg, just wrote an op-ed on "the cynical weaponization of antisemitism by powerful forces who seek to intimidate and ultimately silence legitimate criticism of Israel".
143
276
2K
Eli, Eli, my newly fallen son. When I weep for you, I weep for my son Daniel - your brother in pain - two treasures crushed in the claws of Barbaric terrorism. Danny and Eli, my two fallen sons, it was not the barbarians alone who killed you; Western intellectuals were (1/2).
18
241
2K
I have a personal account to close with al-Qaeda, more so with al-Zawahiri the "ideologist", than with bin-Laden or Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the executioners of our son, Daniel. Today I feel an inch closer to closure. Angels in heaven tell me they feel that way too.
Relieved and grateful that the Biden administration succeeded in its mission to target al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the architects of the 9/11 attacks. The world is safer tonight.
31
248
2K
there all along, watching Barbarians sharpen their knives, explaining, justifying, rationalizing, legitimizing, everything but criminalizing. Let there be no silence on your graves, Eli and Danny, no rest, until those justifiers stand trial, in the high court of history. (2/2).
35
172
2K
Horrible Day. Evil runs amok when God falls asleep on his watch!.
20 years ago today journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by Al Qaeda terrorists. Prior to his brutal murder he stated-“My father is Jewish. My mother is Jewish. I am a Jew." . Please follow his father @yudapearl, a warrior in the fight against Jew hatred.
120
235
2K
Yes, it was 21 years ago when we first heard: "He is not back yet", and he hasn't been back since; except in the minds of millions who take his words to mean: "We ain't going to give up!".
21 years ago, #DanielPearl, an American-#Israeli journalist, was kidnapped. 9 days later, he was brutally murdered by Islamic terrorists for being Jewish while pursuing a story in Pakistan. Daniel Pearl's last words were: "I am #Jewish."
70
293
2K
NYU is my Alma Mater (1965). Bella Ingber speaks more effectively than all Jewish organizations put together. Why? Because she is not afraid to repeat Palestinian slogans, and gaze at their emptiness.
Jewish college students are telling Congress today about the unrestrained #antisemitism sweeping their campuses. I was particularly moved by Bella Ingber, a junior at @nyuniversity. Shame on NYU and other schools for their stunning failure to protect Jewish students.
65
271
1K
I don't get it. Even if we resign to the fact that it is futile to demand that Hamas frees the hostages, it is still the duty of the Red Cross to try, to apply pressure, to mobilize public outrage, to organize students protests in Ivy League universities and, at least, show us.
Hands tight behind their back,beaten brutally, blood on their faces and clothes,crying,scared to death,filmed by the terrorists.Yet, there are more people supporting this barbaric atrocity,than speaking up for the basic Human Rights of these #israeliwomen . Day94- #gaza
148
366
1K
And if you think I am exaggerating, listen to this: A Palestinian student at UCLA complained that the music score of "wonder-woman" makes him feel unsafe, since Gal Gadot is Israeli, and the music professor changed the score - the class was assigned a score of another movie. And.
We shouldn't leave this alone, for it's spreading to academia and other enterprises. It is only a matter of time before Israeli professors will get notice from their Deans that they can't teach any more, because students complained they don't feel safe in class. It will then.
71
298
1K
Statistical proof that it does not pay to be the aggressor, especially when the victim is determined to live.
87
110
1K
Another nail in the coffin of UN credibility. After weeks of silence on Hamas’s October 7 crimes against women and children, United Nations Women issued a definitive statement on Friday that condemned “the brutal attacks by Hamas.”.Then, the organization deleted its statement.
32
190
1K
Today, my wife and I filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Pakistan to overturn the "acquittal" of our son's murderers. We ask all people of conscience to support our efforts to protect journalists from imitators of Omar Sheikh and his ilk. For details
"We are standing up for justice for not only our son, Daniel Pearl, but for all of our dear friends in Pakistan, so they can know a society free of violence and terror, raising their children in peace and harmony," said Ruth & @yudapearl. Actual appeals👇#JusticeForDanielPearl
30
451
1K
Recent reports: Terrorists are moving house to house, shoot to kill, children are crying in their iphones for help, their parents are bleeding. Hamas soldiers grab their phones and broadcast pictures of their bleeding parents to cheering Gaza's media. Israel needs support, not.
Reports from 3 Israeli hospitals: 120 injured, many in difficult situation. Instructions to residents: Hug your children, assure them that security forces are on their way, don't open the door.
48
412
1K
Dear readers. Exactly one hundred years ago, my grandfather teamed with 26 other families to re-establish a Biblical town named Bnei Brak. Today, the children who grew up in that town wish to celebrate it's centennial. The town officials may not have an interest in remembering
56
175
1K
Today, as we solemnly commemorate 22 years since the tragic loss of my son, Danny, I am sharing the first essay that I wrote after his funeral: .“Hope from the Horror of My Son’s Murder,” The Sunday Times (London), August 18, 2002. Today, over two decades.
81
251
1K
Rep Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN is finally out, almost 4 years after I pleaded with Nancy Pelosi to take her off the US foreign Affairs Committee ..a position she was the most unfit person to serve. I wish Speaker Pelosi would have done it, not McCarthy.
Rep @IlhanMN will finally be kicked off the US Foreign Affairs Committee for her anti-Israel bias thanks to the new Speaker of the House @SpeakerMcCarthy. Any member of Congress who actively fights against the US-Israel relationship should not be on that committee.
97
193
1K
Finally, a detailed exposure of the entire ICJ charade by a real expert -- Professor Anne Bayefsky. The UN World Court war against the Jews
130
506
1K
Readers ask whether we, Daniel Pearl's family, were consulted, or whether KSM's murder of Daniel Pearl was a consideration in this deal. The answer is, NO. Evidently, Daniel is not considered a "victim of 9/11.".As far as I am concerned, the deal to annul the death sentence.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the main plotter of 9/11 attacks, agrees to plead guilty
47
402
1K
Our father in heaven. Rock fortress of Israel. Watch over the State of Israel. Shield her beneath the wing of your kindness. Spread upon her your tent of peace. Send your light and wisdom to her leaders, officers, and counselors. Advise them with your good counsel. .
Israel is facing a multi-front attack by Iran and their proxies. OSINT indicates that drones have been launched from Yemen, Iraq, and Iran proper. These drones are the same “Shahed” drones that have been terrorizing Ukrainian cities, and will take hours to reach Israel - at least.
62
170
1K
As I write this message I am receiving word that encampments are beginning to be built at UCLA. It reminds me of Kafka's story, where he woke up to find his hometown occupied by horse-eating Huns, acting as though they own the town. I'll be using my Israeli flag for protection.
61
123
1K
Jews will find a place, but where would the Brits go?.
31
125
971
Painful to see Wikipedia falling to Hamas. Wikipedia Editors Vote to Accuse Israel of Genocide During Ongoing Hamas War in Gaza
275
262
996
A remarkable phenomenon. Against the background of anti-Israel rhetoric and academic pack-chasing, 555 physicians at the University of Toronto decided to take an unprecedented action -- no protests and no demands, just a simple declaration of conviction that is having far.
Second time in my life I'm proud of my Honorary Alma Mater, U. of Toronto (first was in my commencement speech, 2007). We, at UCLA, are following in Toronto's footsteps, with 357 professors: @GilTroy.
13
135
869
This Olympics, I cheer for athletes from Israel and Ukraine; two countries facing extinction, fighting for survival and their right to self defense.
And Olga Kharlan just won Ukraine’s first medal at the 2024 Olympics🤍
53
101
892
Israel is the only country in the world whose attackers are "negotiators" and whose defenders are "escalators".
Of all the vast suffering caused in the Middle East of late, it’s the killings of these vile mass murderers that has you so exercised?. I mean, you really think it wasn’t the *actions* of these three people that brought the Middle East to the brink, but their deaths?. I just.
29
172
897
Announcing new publication policy for the Journal of Causal Inference. The Journal has switched to Open Access. Articles are now published with unrestricted access for everyone, thus boosting visibility and impact. Authors still retain copyrights and there are no embargo periods.
8
127
857
My My! What a wonderful gift for my 86-th birthday tomorrow. Knowing that some bookshelves on planet earth carry my thoughts makes me feel immortal and doubly committed to spending the next 34 years of my life searching for the calculus of our mind. Thank you!.
61
53
860
Those who wish to teach a class on my Causality book would benefit from my slides and homework which I am happy to share: Merry teaching, it should be fun.
13
171
852
We shouldn't leave this alone, for it's spreading to academia and other enterprises. It is only a matter of time before Israeli professors will get notice from their Deans that they can't teach any more, because students complained they don't feel safe in class. It will then.
I can't leave this alone. I need people to truly understand how outrageous this stuff is and how the silence around is an attack on Jews existing in these spaces. This publication (@GuernicaMag) published an article from a very liberal Israeli translator regarding her.
35
179
839
Hi everybody, the intense discussion over The Book of Why drove.me to add my two cents. I will not be able to comment on every tweet,.but I will try to squeak where it makes a difference.
85
85
809
As a 12 yrs old boy, I remember May 15, 1948, more than I remember May 14, when Israel declared independence. Why? Because on May 15 I found myself with 4 other boys in a staircase, cuddled and frightened to hell, when Egyptian war planes dropped bombs on Tel Aviv and its.
It was exactly 76 years and 4 hours ago that the miracle happened, Israel declared independence, and a dream of 80 generations came true: No member of my generation can forget Ben Gurion's voice, as he started: "The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the.
65
179
830
This post seems to have hit a hornet's nest, generating dozens of objections. The only explanation I have why Palestinians cannot grasp the possibility that Israelis could be "equally indigenous" to the land, based on strong historical attachment, is that Palestinians themselves.
Palestinians greatest mistake, which has caused them tragedy after tragedy, was and is to conceptualize Israel as a colonizer, rather than a home-comer. This conception dictates that, if you make its life miserable enough, the colonizer will quit, like Algiers. Palestinians (and.
214
76
796
Thank you Boaz for remembering our son, Daniel, whose Yahrzeit we commemorate on February 1st. Tomorrow, I will say Kaddish at his grave and lay flowers on his tombstone, which reads:. Daniel Pearl (1963-2002).Journalist, musician, humanist.Lost his life in the pursuit of truth.
As always, my weekly Chosen Links section begins on my Facebook, and a few days later it is published on the Jewish Journal. So this past week's one is live if interested:. Thank you to those I shared articles/threads/videos of within: @AsraNomani.
73
113
789
Briefly taking my eyes off the awful war in Israel, I am pleased to announce that The Handbook of Rationality is now open access and thus freely available to everyone. The entire volume and all individual chapters can be read, downloaded, and printed at the following URL:.
23
146
802
1/ The Balloons on my screen remind me that, yes, I'm 85 yrs young today and, yes, I'm fortunate to be able to continue defending commonsense reasoning through AI, continue defending the miracle called Israel, and continue growing with my children and grandchildren despite the.
69
24
788
That's how they do it at Columbia. That's how the KKK mob did it in 1915. That's how the Nazis did it in 1939. They form a "human chain" and push whoever dares "infringe on the privacy of their encampment". Chilling. More chilling: no one dares calling them "Racists".
Crazy scene tonight at Columbia University: Jewish students came to the campus - and then this happened. The undergrad who filmed it told me: “We didn’t say a word. My friend had a Jewish star necklace. All of the sudden we’re surrounded, they’ve been circling us, threatening us”
25
230
759
If you are associated with my university, UCLA, you will be please to know that things ain't going to be the same this coming academic year. A new faculty organization called Jewish Faculty Resilience Group (JFRG) is now on watch, see to combat.
43
78
770
On Bravery. I have been thinking lately how I would have reacted had I faced anti-Israel hecklers in one of my lectures. I would probably get angry at them, stop the lecture, challenge them to the podium, etc. But Eden remains calm, convinced that her artistry alone will unmask.
22
67
753
I wrote a poem for Danny called "The Lion Den" .It ends: . And when Daniel was lifted from the den,.So the Bible tells us,.No wound was found on him,.Because he stood his ground.'Cause he stood our ground.So the Bible tells us. (Daniel 6:28).
27
101
715
The most racist document I've seen through my 55 years at UCLA (CAC’s hiring policies): “We reserve the right to remove any staff member who dispels antiBlackness, colorism, racism, white supremacy, zionism, xenophobia". homophobia, transphobia, sexism, misogyny, ableism, and.
At UCLA Cultural Affairs, Jewish students were allegedly rejected for ‘Zionist ties’—code for being Jewish. Zionism is simply about Jewish self-determination. Twisting it into a slur to exclude Jews is antisemitism. via @anteksiler. @antisemitism.
30
201
760
I tried to add a comment. I couldn't.
Breaks my heart. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME! 😢 . An #Israeli boy hugging his father’s grave on #YomHazikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terror)!
32
97
708
a fresh link:.If you want to join us in "Kaddish para Daniel," please click on and whisper the holy words "Yitgadal V'Yitkadash Shmei Raba" -- they have shaken the gates of heaven many times before.
28
108
680
Depressed by today's news of Israel losses in Gazza, I've taken a symbolic action to express.solidarity, condolences, and concerns. I've donated $400 to buy a highly protective helmet for an IDF soldier serving in Gazza. If you wish to do likewise, it's simple, you can send.
73
129
685
Please do not silence @timnitGebru. Knee-jerk reactions of anti-Zionist activists provide valuable information about the neural architecture of their moral deformities and their racist mindsets. Instead, let's study in depth the process by which sickly hallucinations about.
@DanielHGill @timnitGebru @yudapearl @bariweiss @JGunlock @LarryOConnor @chien_kwok @DavidSuissaJJ @FreeBlckThought @JohnFetterman @garrytan @Kasparov63 Nobody messes with Dr. @yudapearl while I’m alive. He’s a living saint. Did @timnitGebru think she could chase clout in her social justice tribe by branding a living saint a racist “fascist”? Not on my watch.
44
66
699
Falafel - a story of a conflict. Israeli: Yummy! I love falafel.Palestinian: It's mine.Israeli: You like it too? Let me get one for you. Palestinian: I want yours.Israeli: OK take this, I'll get another.Palestinian: Its not what I'll have; it's about what I won't let you have.
So much backlash to falafel being our national dish. But we didn’t adopt it to erase the Arab roots of the food. We did it because we are an inseparable part of the region and Arabs and Jews share so much culturally.
121
97
670
Proud of my students and colleagues. From darkness and destruction to light and hope.
From Darkness to Light. Pro Israel and pro America celebration countering the pro Hamas riots at UCLA.
42
98
698
I have listened to @USC Prof. John Strauss, and have signed the petition for his reinstatement. Friends, the sophistication of pro-Hamas fascism is getting crazier by the day, assisted by appeasement-minded university administrators. We know how it will end if it's not nipped.
Listen to @USC Prof. John Strauss, describe his vicious harassment by pro-Hamas antisemites who fabricated & creatively edited things he never said. Please sign the petition to bring him back to his classroom as @USC outrageously placed him on leave.
21
166
678
Dear Fatima Mohammed, I am one of those Zionist professors whom you wish to shun. Let me assure you that your organization, SJP, will be ousted from my campus way before me or any of my students, precisely because of racist demands such as those you have made today. 1/2.
Calls for the ethic cleansing of Jews on the streets of New York. “Demand that Zionist professors are not welcomed on your campus. Demanded that Zionist students are not in places were Palestinian students are.”.
23
117
652
Good news! My lecture on "What is Causal Inference" is already available on youtube, free for all: Enjoy!.And, if there are questions, do not hesitate, preferably after reading #Bookofwhy, for the obvious reason that the answer is very likely to be there.
10
171
666
Thus bringing Israel to 3rd place in # of Turing laurates (after US and UK). Not bad for a country fighting daily for its right to live, and blamed by its neighbors for daring to fight. @naftalibennett @AvivaKlompas.
Wow! What amazing news!. Israeli mathematician, Avi Wigderson, was awarded the 2023 Turing Prize for insights into randomness. Wigderson was born in my hometown of Haifa and completed his undergraduate studies at the city's Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. MAZAL Tov
19
118
651
I called my family in Israel. They are preparing for the Iranian attack which, so the Supreme Leader said, will target civilian centers first. Tonight, we are standing and praying with the people of Israel. "Our father in heaven,. , Bless the State of Israel, the dawn of our.
Iran plans to attack Israel on Tisha B’Av - the Jewish day of disasters, Western intelligence says.
51
126
660
I find it morally deranged, and divinely hypocritical for anyone concerned with children's lives to ignore the bleeding and suffering of 300,000 Israeli children under 20 yrs of Hamas rockets. It is doubly depressing to see this hypocrisy in journalism, my son's noble profession.
31
175
641
My last email from Daniel Kahneman goes: "Hi Judea, Did you study in Tichon Irony Dati in Tel Aviv? I studied there in 1949, and had a wonderful physics teacher name Feuchtwanger".As it turns out we went to the same high school in Tel Aviv, two years apart 1947-9, and shared.
Thanks so much for posting this forgotten .AI Debate; this was probably the last time I saw Daniel Kahneman (albeit virtually). It makes me doubly sad that he didn't talk about counterfactuals as he originally planned, as described in Lewis's book "The Undoing Project".
8
68
637
Reminds me how our son, Daniel, got lost on this very beach when he was 6 - abruptly swallowed by the crowd. We found him 3 hours later, two miles away, drinking soda with the life guards. "Why were you worried" he asked.
20
30
615
OK, no point keeping it secret any longer -- it was I who advised Dean Douglas Elmendorf to block your fellowship at Harvard. Blame me, not the "Israeli lobby" and, you know what, resign gracefully, before Harvard students discover what you really stand for. @GeraldNGOM.
My statement in response to the decision by Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf to reverse his decision to block a fellowship for me proposed by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
46
107
621
Dear friends in academia,.We are in receipt of an urgent petition against Boycotts of Israeli Academicians which I thought you would wish to sign. It started with scholars from the humanities and social science, but can be signed by academics from other fields as well.
30
210
619
We, who have been accustomed to use the Wikipedia in a variety of subjects, will have to get used to a new reality: Never use it on anything related to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, not even verifiable facts and figures; the deceit is language-deep.
NEW WIKIPEDIA INVESTIGATION: How Wikipedia’s Pro-Hamas Editors Hijacked the Israel-Palestine Narrative. • A seemingly coordinated campaign led by around 40 Wikipedia editors has worked to delegitimize Israel, present radical Islamist groups in a favorable light, and position
39
168
636
As we celebrate Thanksgiving, I am reminded that "thanking" is purely counterfactual concept; you don't thank anyone unless you can imagine an alternative world, significantly worse than ours. While such worlds are sometimes hard to imagine, the mere sound of the word "thanks" 1/.
12
68
615
This new book: Handbook of Graphical Models.captures well how the field has grown since its inception in the 1980's. Written by top statisticians, it can serve as a good introduction to causal modeling for traditionally-trained statisticians. #Bookofwhy.
2
138
608
In honor of Lord Balfour, a man of wisdom and character, whose portrait was defaced yesterday by the Barbarians of victim-land, I am reposting my piece on Balfour and the redefinition of "indigenous people" here
A pro-Palestinian protester vandalizes the portrait of Lord Balfour at the University of Cambridge as a protest that The Balfour Declaration 107 years ago led to the establishment of the State of Israel. For them, anyone who recognizes the State of Israel’s right to exist is an
84
124
605
Over 250 UCLA professors are calling the University to denounce Pro-Palestinian rallies on campus in which the massacres by Hamas are celebrated, including explicit calls for violence. See Open Letter text and signatories: @DavidSuissaJJ @Ostrov_A.
32
168
596
I'd strongly support the idea of a Manhattan Project of intense research to make machines more trustworthy and interpretable (regardless of, or in parallel with a moratorium.) The premature super-investment in non-interpretable technologies is the core of our problems.
Absolutely, a Manhattan project on getting AI systems to align with human values would be a great thing. (As an aside, the letter wasn’t a blanket moratorium and it actually encouraged research to make machines more trustworthy and interpretable; I would not have signed.
27
150
611
Many Jews feel cheated by the world. At the lowest moment of modern Jewish history, when we could have expected a sea of global sympathy, we got the opposite.
77
141
580
A letter I wrote to the California Board of Education:. I strongly oppose the 2021 California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. I am particularly alarmed by its attempt to depict inter-ethnic relationships as a irreconcilable struggle between racially-defined “oppressed” 1/4.
I will be speaking at this important webinar on Sunday. I have two grand-children in California, and I want to see them grow up in a friendly environment, respectful of differences and free of finger-pointing.
19
136
580
Dear Senator @BernieSanders , Right now 3 million Israeli children are facing genocide, publicly proclaimed and pursued by Iran and its proxies Hamas and Hezbolla, and a US Senator thinks it's okay to pay no attention to their plight for life, not a glimpse of attention, not a.
Right now tens of thousands of children in Gaza are facing starvation, malnutrition, and famine. And Congressional leadership thinks it’s okay to invite war criminal Netanyahu to address Congress?. No. Unacceptable.
95
125
586
This question annoys ALL students (and professors) of ML, but they are afraid to ask. Thanks for raising it in this "no hand waving" forum. Take two causal diagrams: .X-->Y and X<--Y, and ask a neural network to decide which is more probable, after seeing 10 billion samples. 1/n.
What is wrong about model-free causality? Instead of the programmer building in their assumptions or knowledge into causality diagrams, why not let neural networks descend to and generate the most probable causality diagrams?.@yudapearl #causality.
12
129
571
It's 12 midnight, September 11, in LA, an hour I can't forget, b/c my son was murdered by the same people who made this day unforgettable. I salute the people of Israel who remember my fellow Americans through these columns of lights in the "9/11 Living Memorial", in Jerusalem.
The 9/11 Living Memorial Plaza in Jerusalem lights up by columns of light in remembrance of the terror victims. Israel remembers together with America. 🇺🇸🕯 #911Memorial
18
105
555
I am grateful to all readers who have sent me words of support, in the wake of the horrific massacre in Israel. My family is doing OK, volunteering to hospitals and other services. My heart is with the families who are viewing their children and parents in the claws of evil, and.
13
24
566
How long before America decides to examine the “student visas” of these parrots?.
This is genuinely blood-curling. Hamas murdered 364 Jewish civilians at the Nova music festival - one of the worst terrorist massacres in modern history. And people in New York City actually celebrate the bloodshed with zombie like call-and-response chants defending the
37
134
570
I am trying my best to comply with the Biblical command: Do not rejoice when your enemy falls. I am partially successful, but I cannot suppress one pleasant thought: Oh God, I hope a Bayesian Network algorithm was used today in searching and locating Haniyeh's whereabout.
49
60
578
When a student union is hijacked by BDS cronies, students suffer but the university continues to function. When an academic department is hijacked, the university is dismembered, marking the end of higher education. A group of us decided enough is enough:
20
120
542
Sharing 2020 quotes that will guide me into 2021:."The data-fitting school is driven by the faith that the secret to rational decisions lies in the data itself, if only we are sufficiently clever at data mining. In contrast, the data-interpreting school views data, not as a 1/3.
13
115
565
A Nature article reports a breakthrough in medical diagnosis. While most ML enthusiasts are busy mining raw data, a British team has taken counterfactuals seriously (do-calculus, probability of causation, twin networks, noisy-OR) with impressive results.
5
149
561
Hey Gary, don't turn me into an old man! If @timnitGebru is an AI ethics icon, someone has to change that ethics and, based on my short experience with her tantrum, I think I can do it even 97 yrs old.
Appalled that @timnitgebru, AI ethics icon, can’t lay off a lovely 87-year-old man, one of the great scientists of our time, whose journalist son was kidnapped and publicly beheaded in an act of political violence. Her power has gone to her head;.her humanity has vanished.
22
28
558
Hamas surrender may be the solution our political analysts have neglected to consider.
Mass surrender of terrorists today. The IDF is seeing more of these every day, as Hamas begins to crumble. Notice all the arms they are providing in a neat pile.
39
95
534
Excited to report: Evan Gershkovich is out of jail. He will now be able to receive the Press Club Daniel Pearl Award in person. @jaketapper.
It’s Thursday August 1, 2024 AND EVAN IS FREE!!!!. Detained by the Russian FSB Mar 29, 2023, 1 year & 124 days ago, today in a prisoner swap, EVAN HAS BEEN FREED!. JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME! . #IStandwithEvan
14
45
508
The dishonesty of Rashid Khalidi. Rashid Khalidi is upset at a statement by 18 Columbia University Deans, which reads:."[The Columbia community should acknowledge] that hearing chanted phrases such as ‘by any means necessary,’ ‘from the river to the sea,’ or calls for an.
Who said Columbia administration and faculty are totally blind to students harassment? Here are 17 Deans setting up norms of academic discourse without infringing upon protected speech.
35
109
528